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How to Kick Soccer Ball Harder
Putting It Into Practice
Practice shooting and kicking harder by first consciously bending your kicking knee to a greater extent. As your kicking leg naturally extends behind you just before a strike, try to feel your knee bend bringing your heel closer towards your back side. Just get used to the feeling before you start trying to strike the ball with 100% effort. It's important to gradually build up.
Once that feels a little more comfortable, focus on making the transition from your knee bending to extending as quickly as possible. In other words, a very slow transition would involve you hold you knee in a fully bent position for a few seconds before extending it to strike the ball. You want the opposite of that. As soon as you feel your knee is fully flexed, extend it rapidly to strike the ball.
Once you have mastered this technique, you can then focus on extending your leg from the hip as quickly as possible. Again, it's the transition (that split second point where the leg goes from moving behind you to in front of you) that is important and a conscious intent to make this faster is all that is needed.
I hope you've found this little kicking tutorial interesting and useful. Please keep an eye out on your inbox for more.
Best wishes,
Phil Davies
http://www.total-soccer-fitness.com
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